Justice Quotes

“Why do you all push us around?”

“From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.”

“Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.”

“War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”

“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.”

“Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.”

“Equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal."

“Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion.”

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”

“The meshes of the net of Heaven are large and far apart, but it lets nothing escape.”

“I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just.”

“That's what justice represents to me: it's about empowerment of the people.”

“I have spent my career as a prosecutor. I've only had one client in my entire life, and that has been the people.”

“As a former prosecutor, I understand the importance of holding powerful people accountable.”